On a related front:

Anyone know how to have a "normal" console on the first head at the same
time as mgatv on the second?

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 21:27 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote:
> On 09/09/06, Marko Mäkelä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The first time I tested with your configuration, I got a picture.
> > "top" indicated 60% CPU usage, which is slightly more than with
> > mgatv.  So, I tried to switch from YUY2 to I420.  The CPU load
> > would drop to around 40%, but the video overlay would be all black.
> > Switching back to YUY2 did affect CPU usage, but the video overlay
> > remained black.  Even rebooting did not help.
> 
> Well when I was fiddling with different modes in softdevice using -vo
> dfb:, I noticed that if I changed away from YUY2, the 2nd head went
> blank, and the video appeared on the 1st head with the wrong colours.
> After changing back to YUY2 I had to reset the STRETCH BLIT option
> just below. It has to be ON for me to see an image. The OSD works
> throughout this.
> 
> don't know why rebooting didn't help though...
> 
> > In the log, I can see messages like this:
> >
> > [dfb] (re)configuring Videolayer to 720 x 576 (720x576)
> > [dfb]: SetParams: failed to set buffermode to back video, reverting to 
> > normal
> > [dfb] SetParams: 
> > action=IDirectFBDisplayLayer::SetConfiguration(DFBDisplayLayerConfig&), 
> > result=Not supported!
> > Can't configure ScreenLocation. Hope it is Fullscreen
> > [surface capabilities] videoSurface: videoonly PixelFormat = 0x00200801
> > [dfb] (re)configured 0x00200806
> >
> > Any ideas?  -vo dfb:mgatv works fine.
> >
> >         Marko
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> 

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